So Lisa Junkin, interim director of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, plans to hit “pause” with the Slow Museum Project, funded by a $40,000 grant from the American Alliance of Museums.

The project, inspired by the Slow Food movement, “re-envisions the museum as a site of recreation, reflection and respite,” she said.

“We’ve organized Slow Food programs for five years, and we want to apply ‘slow’ ideals — thoughtfully sourced ingredients, worker advocacy, savoring what we consume — to the museum experience.

“Quick fixes may capture visitors’ fleeting attentions, but they also contribute to the larger problem of an overworked and over-saturated society.”

The museum is housed in the Victorian mansion that served as home to Addams and other reformers as well as headquarters of the Hull-House Settlement. The reformers defined leisure as the basis for culture, and therefore critical to learning and socialization.

She is looking at techniques devised by two early Hull-House residents: sociologist Neva Boyd, a leader in the modern play movement; and Viola Spolin, who is credited with inventing improvisational theater. Boyd wrote extensively on children’s games. In a previous exhibition, the museum offered cards describing improv games devised by Spolin.

The museum also plans to continue its Slow Food and other programming. It has switched its long-running Re-Thinking Soup food discussion series from the hectic lunch hour to a more leisurely dinner time, with the next installment set for Oct. 17, 6-7:30 p.m. at the museum’s Residents’ Dining Hall.